Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

Learn more about how these experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

Two decades on from the first reported covalent organic frameworks, Nina Notman investigates what their future holds ...

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a recent winter day, while black-necked stilts and kildeer waded in the shallows, pecking at ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets! Scientists found that when mist and sprays collide, they generate microlightning ...

A new electrochemical technique published in the journal Nature Catalysis now proposes to separate urea from urine in its ...

Forever chemicals in North Carolina’s water systems could be filtered out before human consumption using innovative ...

By Michelle Spear Shimmering, wobbling and painstakingly prepared, jelly was a staple of elite Victorian dining tables. But ...